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Bow Down · Geese

EXERCISE 15 OF 30
Groove N
61 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBTS4DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bow Down on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, silence through bars 64-74 and ride through bars 75-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 12-17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx----xxxx----|
SD |----xxxx----xxxx|
BD |x-xx----x-xx----|
Bow Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 29-78 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bow Down?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bow Down hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bow Down?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED